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Stuck For A Last-minute Gift? Here Are Some `Trek' Ideas

Are you still looking for the perfect holiday gift for that Trekker friend or loved one? Search no further.

After having scoured the stores and catalogs of America, Inside Trek presents the very best in "Trek" presents. (Prices may vary.)

Fans of Bjo Trimble's "Star Trek Concordance" (Citadel Press) will be thrilled to learn that Trimble has updated her popular "Trek"-classic resource guide.

Available at bookstores for $19.95, "Concordance" provides plot synopses and a lexicon of aliens, planets and the like for each "Trek"-classic episode and film, and for "Next Gen" and "DS9" episodes with "Trek"-classic connections.

Royal Animated Art offers limited-edition seri-cels based on artwork from the animated "Trek" series. "Tribble Trouble" features Kirk with Tribbles, and "At the Helm" features Kirk in the captain's chair with Spock at his side. They sell for $89.99 at comic book and animation stores.

Another seri-cel, "Transporter Room," features Spock and Kirk on transporter pads and is signed by William Shatner. It sells for $495.

The MicroMachines "Trek" Collector's Set II from Galoob includes 16 pieces, including assorted "Trek" vehicles, a Klingon Battle Cruiser and the Enterprise from "All Good Things." It's available at toy stores for $27.

Hallmark's 1995 "Trek" Christmas ornament is a Romulan Warbird ($24), but Hallmark is also beaming onto shelves a Picard figure ($13.95), a Kirk figure ($13.95) and "The Ships of `Trek' " ($19.95), a three-piece set featuring a miniaturized Enterprise, Enterprise-D and a Klingon Bird of Prey.

Zanart utilizes acrylic, foiling and etching to give their 11-inch-by-14-inch "Trek" images the illusion of depth on a two-dimensional surface. Handsome ChromArt prints from "Trek," "Next Gen" and "DS9" are available for $11.99 each ($19.99 matted and framed) at gift and comic-book shops, as well as through catalogs.

Do you want to join Scotty, Riker, Odo or Janeway on an Away Team mission? Then beam home a life-size cardboard stand-up figure from Advanced Graphics. Stand-up figures of characters from the four "Trek" series are available at collectibles shops for $25 each.

If you plan on buying several figures, you can save a considerable amount of money by ordering directly through Advanced Graphics 510-432-2262.

Playmates warps into the holidays with action figures galore, including Janeway, Neelix, Khan and Vash. Each sells for $6.99. New ships include a Ferengi Marauder and the U.S.S. Stargazer (each $6.99).

The company also offers a "DS9" space station -- with lights and sounds -- for $19.99 and, in its Space Talk series, 7-inch "Trek" classic, "Next Gen" and "DS9" talking action figures (each $9.99).

Other last-minute "Trek" gift-giving ideas include Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens' "The Art of Star Trek" (Pocket Books, $50), a gorgeous hardcover book featuring a gallery of artwork -- sketches, matte paintings, etc. -- created for "Trek" series and films; "Net Trek" (Random House Electronic Publishing/Michael Wolff & Co., $19), an unofficial but informative guide to "Trek" in cyberspace; and the many "Trek" ship and character model kits available from Ertl at toy and hobby stores.

Most of the companies mentioned above, as well as many others, will introduce -- or expand on -- "Voyager" products in early 1996.

Happy Holidays!

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